Maryland Dad

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Ed & EdTech, Instructional Design, Curriculum Technology, Media Production...& Politics. Trying to focus less on the latter but with little success.
We all need to go on more hikes.

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I cannot emphasize enough that straight reporting in the NYT should be verified elsewhere if you want to be sure about it. The standards are appalling.

I’m going to start with the absolutely jaw-dropping news that The New York Times deceptively edited a quote to make it appear that JD Vance opposes a national abortion ban. — @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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04.05.24 40 out of 44 ppl in TFG's cabinet during his term as president aren't supporting him this year. Imagine if 40/44 who knew you said you were unfit. You'd take action to figure out what's up. TFG just gets new ppl to use up, he'll toss them if they resist his overreach, with another one.

Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White Housewww.pbs.org As Trump seeks the presidency a third time, he's being shadowed by a chorus of people who served in his administration who have become sharp critics, some offering dire predictions about his return to...

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this does a little better job making it clear to readers that Vance's interest in "antitrust reform" is really about scaring tech companies away from moderating racist political propaganda, but it still doesn't quite capture the fact his entire political existence is a meaningless performance

J.D. Vance is anti-Big Tech, pro-cryptowww.theverge.com The Silicon Valley darling wants to regulate Google and deregulate crypto.

just amazing, and first person knowing

YT version www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMM...

Liberal Redneck - JD Vance Ain't Itwww.youtube.com Bank better at www.climatefirstbank.com/traeI actually know ol Vance a tiny little bit. Not a fan, really, believe it or not. Also, see me live: www.traecrow...

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For anyone who’s wondering why a right wing, gun-advocate 20 year old might try to assassinate Trump, Google “accelerationism” and then read this transcript of Alex Jones talking about how Trump getting assassinated would be the “best case scenario” for the conservative cause.

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www.military.com/daily-news/2...

What Happens if the President Issues a Potentially Illegal Order to the Military?www.military.com Military.com spent several months trying to unearth what existing safeguards and policies are in place to protect what has long been considered a hallmark of the U.S. -- an apolitical military that us...

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Popping on to say: A lot of rumors are about to fly about this rally. Trump's team is 100% going to try and take advantage of this situation. So will malicious foreign actors/bots/etc. Please don't auto share. Check your sources, and vet their wording/sourcing carefully.

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Page A1: BREAKING NEWS: ASHLEY JUDD SAYS BIDEN SHOULD STEP DOWN Page B16: City of Houston has no power for a week and its 105 degrees there and no one's doing anyting to help them boring boring boring

The fourth largest city in America is still in crisis under a deadly heatwave & the power company can't get hundreds of thousands of households back online, but you'd barely know it from our national news.

850K CenterPoint customers remain without power after Hurricane Berylwww.houstonchronicle.com More than 850,000 CenterPoint customers were without power four days after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast.

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I wrote a thing: "chill the fuck out, Joe Biden’s got this" — last night, Joe took an hour-long cognitive test on live TV. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

chill the fuck out, Joe Biden’s got thisbit.ly last night, Joe took an hour-long cognitive test on live TV

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Prices at DC’s first office-to-residential apartments start at $2,885 for a 574-square-foot studio and go up to $6,088 for a one-bedroom with two bathrooms The property management company behind the apartments is being sued by DC for price gouging

Downtown DC's first office-to-residential conversion unveiledwww.wusa9.com Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the completion of the Elle, downtown D.C.'s first office-to-residential conversion.

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Honest to God: this is an accessible, reasonably thorough overview you can share with your mom that also does a solid job shooting down the campaign’s attempts to distance themselves from the plan

PEOPLE Magazine! What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconn... I find this quite interesting since McConnell had the opportunity to stop Trump and took the cowards way out

'Keep better company': McConnell vows to 'stamp out' Trumpian 'America First' policieswww.rawstory.com Sen. Mitch McConnell Friday vowed he'll be "stamping out" Donald Trump's foreign policy ethos and slammed the former president for rhetoric he linked to 1930s fascists, a new report shows. McConnell...

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Brooke Binkowski

This is the report I'm talking about, if anyone reading is unfamiliar. It got buried by CBP antics and a horrible disinfo campaign the week it was released www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...

www.oig.dhs.gov

LOL! (well, argh!) Hey AI, can you tell me if AI can do these jobs instead of people? What say you?

We are ruled by the stupidest people. www.404media.co/ai-finds-tha...

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Heaven forbid you assholes address his coherent policy discussion. Nope. For you, it’s all about the horse race game. Really, though? The fucking TV critic? This is not another episode of The Apprentice.

President Biden “was not the uncomfortable, lost presence of the debate, but he didn’t erase the memory of that version of himself either,” our chief TV critic writes about Thursday’s news conference.

Biden’s News Conference Answered Many Questions. But Not the Big One.www.nytimes.com For once, a presidential Q. and A. was must-see TV. But it didn’t put an end to the summer’s biggest drama.

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Project 2025, Page 103: 'All Public School Children have to take a Military entrance exam, while Private School Children... do not.' Conservatives want to send your kids to war and die for the country while their kids are safe at home.

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Don't shoot your dogs because you can't train them. Don't get convicted of felonies. Don't wear your borderline pedophila like a badge. Don't use your religion as a weapon. Don't insist people of a lighter skin tone are better. And leave our national parks the fuck alone. hear me, politicians?

Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.

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open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

Biden Pushes Back, Delivers Strong Press Conferenceopen.substack.com Never count Joe out

At worst, Biden needs to stop explaining and get a better with summary replies. Give them the sound bites. The media won't care or report about lengthy responses.

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It's almost like there's a reason for food safety regulations.

"It is the largest reported salmonella outbreak linked to raw milk in the U.S. in the past decade, according to health officials."

Dozens were sickened with salmonella after drinking raw milk from a California farmapnews.com Dozens of salmonella illnesses have been linked to raw milk from a California farm. The outbreak is far wider than previously known.

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mwkiley

Narnia books are Christian allegories- and still, the answer is - YES. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was banned in 1990. Good explanation can be found here: The whole series is found to promote paganism, occultism, and heresy - Aslan being the christ figure - anthropomorphism is a no no.

Banned Book Review: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobethehopefulheroine.wordpress.com Author: C. S. Lewis Published: Originally, 1950 Publisher:Harper Collins Age group | Genre: MG | Fantasy Pages: 206 Sometimes, it hurts my heart when a book is challenged or banned. The Lion, The Witc...

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Nice. Religion doing something useful for once.

Trees and forests are sacred, able to connect us spiritually to some entity greater then ourselves, Earth, or God, or others. Nowhere is this relationship better seen than in the beautifully managed church forests of Ethiopia, where monks and nuns have preserved the rich diversity of their forests.

Guardians of the sacred: Ethiopian Orthodox monks on spiritual forest conservationnews.mongabay.com BAHIR DAR, Ethiopia — The Zege Peninsula, a hidden gem on the southern shore of Lake Tana, is a serene escape in Ethiopia’s north. As the boat glides across the tranquil waters, Zege’s verdant silhoue...

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I hope you can join for the last panel I'm organizing with @SciSpeakUp on how scientific evidence on COVID-19 is (mis)used by counter-consensus communities. July 10th at 10 AM PDT, with a Zoom webinar option. RSVP: shorturl.at/iuf9P

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Are you an enterprising law student with a demonstrated interest in First Amendment law and tech policy? If not, do you know one? I'm hiring a legal intern for the fall semester to work on free speech, platform/intermediary liability, and artificial intelligence: techfreedom.org/were-hiring-...

We’re Hiring: Free Speech & Tech Legal Internshiptechfreedom.org

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Glenn Levy

I agree with both of you on that plus, Trump shouldn’t even be ALLOWED to run for president after January 6th and all his conniving and lies, trying to pretend he didn’t lose!! Plus, he gets crazier and creepier by the day! And now he’s THREATENING PEOPLE. Give me a damn break!!

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so sweet

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I do love Affinity, and it's affordably priced too, esp with their current 50% off offer.

Affinity are extending their trial period to 6 months if you'd like to see if you can use it as an alternative to Adobe products. And if you like it, it's a one off payment not a monthly fee. I did all my cover design in Affinity Designer and the paperback formatting in Affinity Publisher.

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Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Silverman on Security

He'd get his hands on a FOIAed planning document, appropriations document or, in one case, just the CDC's CONOP for dealing with a public health emergency. In every case the reporting was incorrect because he had no understanding of what he was reading. Or how the government actually works. 2/

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Seems bad

Former Trump Staffer Reveals New Texts Alleging More Secret Payoffs and Settlementswww.mediaite.com A former staffer on Trump's 2016 campaign revealed texts claiming that the former president's 2020 campaign "settled multiple" sexual harassment lawsuits.